Yay, new Noble Dechet =)


Also, there's this topic now. I didn't find the one for this year.

New CroissantChicago that I missed earlier this year. It always blows my mind how these guys manage to make the voice synthetizers sound alive:

More 70s prog organfest! This guy never disappoints:

My AOTY so far is Broadcast's Spell Blanket, a collection of demos and fragments for what would have been their next album. Heartwrenching stuff.


The Beth Gibbons album feels like a continuation of Third rather than her solo album; what Portishead might have been if they cut down the electronics even further.


Mabe Fratti's cello continues to weave magical electroacoustic avant folk/art pop:


Anastasia Coope's freak folk reminds me a bit of Diane Cluck, one of my favorite new discoveries:


Litku Klemetti is consistently my favorite active Finnish-language artist (though Oranssi Pazuzu gave her a run for her money). Such layered, simultaneously nostalgic and forward-looking bedroom pop:


(And yeah, I really did like Brat, almost as much as How I'm Feeling Now...)